Banks' Lending Activity During Business Cycles
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In the article the financial system is viewed as an important driver of business cycle fluctuations. A common explanation for the procyclicality of the financial system has its roots in information asymmetries between borrowers and lenders. Minsky proposed theories linking financial market fragility, in the normal life-cycle of an economy, with speculative investment bubbles endogenous to financial markets. One of the explanation of economic and financial cycles is often known as the 'financial accelerator'. It creates theoretical framework in which the state of borrowers' balance sheets and collateral value was a source of real output fluctuations. An additional material source of financial procyclicality is inappropriate responses by financial market participants to changes in risk over time. The behaviour of lending institutions during business cycles depends on their perceptions of risk. During upturns banks' overoptimism about borrowers' future prospects, coupled with strong balance sheets and increasing competition, brings about more liberal credit policies with lower credit standards. (original abstract)
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